Drafting of reports, projects and abstracts; the essay

LUG-105 English and Legal Language, Unit III: Drafting of reports and projects. · LLB · 60 min

The report as a form: its kinds, the steps from terms of reference to revision, and its structure, with a model outline of a court-visit report. The project report: the steps for preparing one and its standard parts (title, abstract, introduction, review of literature, methodology, findings, conclusion, references) with a model abstract of a law project; descriptive and informative abstracts. Then the essay, the longest composition the paper sets: planning, structure, the outlines of the asked essays (triple talaq, public interest litigation, corruption, uniform civil code, women empowerment, right to information) and complete model essays. This lecture covers topics 6 and 7 of the unit (reports and projects; abstracts).

Objectives

Define a report, name its kinds and state the steps in drafting one.
Describe the steps for preparing a project report and the parts of its standard structure.
Write an informative abstract of 150-250 words for a law project.
Plan an essay in five minutes (thesis, outline, examples, conclusion) and write a 400-word essay on a legal topic in thirty.
Reproduce the outlines of the essays set in past papers and support them with the relevant law and cases.

Slides

What a report is, and its kinds
Steps in drafting a report (2019-20, Q.B3)
Steps for preparing a project report (2018-19, Q.B5)
The structure of a project report, and citation
Writing an abstract
The essay: planning and structure for a 7- or 10-mark answer
Outline I: Constitutional validity of triple talaq (2018-19, Q.C1)
Outline II: Public Interest Litigation (2022-23, Q.5b) and corruption in India (2023-24, Q.3a)
Outline III: Uniform Civil Code, Women Empowerment, Right to Information (2019-20, Q.C1)
How the examiner asks it

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